{"id":1162,"date":"2003-10-18T22:53:31","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T03:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/10\/18\/1162\/"},"modified":"2003-10-18T22:53:31","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T03:53:31","slug":"1162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/10\/18\/1162\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I stood in the bathroom and I had to snap my fingers to get the automatic soap dispenser to ejaculate into my hand, and I was thinking about how the other people in the room all paid a thousand dollars to see this show, and I got in for free, and there we all were together, peeing.<\/p>\n<p>I sat in row H of the lower balcony and watched the Gala Premier of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disney.co.uk\/MusicalTheatre\/TheLionKing\/home\/index.html\">The Lion King<\/a> tour in Louisville, and it was really actually as good as it&#8217;s made out to be, even on tour.  It&#8217;s stylistically and technically excellent, with the kind of transparency of production that I really admire and want to be able to do, someday.<\/p>\n<p>I need to explain now how I got into this black-tie-only red-carpet Kentucky Center 20th Anniversary show, which is that I have Connections.  And now I need to explain how I have said Connections, which is that I&#8217;ve been rehearsing for a few weeks with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improvamerica.com\/troupescreen.php3?showall=1&#038;troupeid=7002\">Project Improv<\/a> apprentices company (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/view.cgi\/nfd\/2003\/10\/17\/1\">my life is filled with improv<\/a>).  I haven&#8217;t talked about it in here because I wasn&#8217;t really sure how far I wanted to go with it&#8211;acting&#8217;s not something in which I&#8217;m really interested at this point in my life, and I&#8217;ve never actually been very good at improv.  Yet I keep coming back to rehearsals.  I guess I&#8217;m kind of in.<\/p>\n<p>The PI troupe proper, by and large, works in the Kentucky Center; their kindness and their comp tickets extend to their adopted apprentices, and so we ended up standing nervously and giggling in the middle of people with free food and champagne.  I could have hit the mayor of Louisville (who currently wields considerably more power than, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kypost.com\/news\/pattonarchive.html\">our governor<\/a>) with a rock.  I have no reason to hit him with anything, I&#8217;m just saying.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good show, anyway, and I got to try out my fancy new black blazer for the first time.  I didn&#8217;t really want to walk up the red carpet, lined with photographers and drummers and giant puppets, on the way in.  But I did on the way out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood in the bathroom and I had to snap my fingers to get the automatic soap dispenser to ejaculate into my hand, and I was thinking about how the other people in the room all paid a thousand dollars to see this show, and I got in for free, and there we all were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,86,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-drama","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}